If Americans can figure out and ACT to prevent cell phone apps from grabbing their contacts and location information—what will they do when they find out that electronic health systems collect use, and sell mountains of detailed, intimate information about their minds and bodies—and they can’t turn these “apps” off?

People CAN choose to live without Angry Birds (or whatever app they decide against) but they really CAN’T choose to go without healthcare – at least not without possibly serious health repercussions. People can choose what personal info to share online (to some degree), but really can’t choose what health info is shared.

Health technology systems that eliminate patient control over who can see and use sensitive health data are causing the nation’s greatest hidden privacy disaster. It can only be fixed when the public finds out.